Improvement in journal-lubricators



j. A. COWLES.

Car-Axle Lubricator.

Patented Dec. 6, 1870.

timid States JAMES A. OOWLES, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

Letters Patent No. 109,870, dated December 6, 1870; antedated November 30, 1870.

I A IMPROVEMENT IN JOURNAL-LUBRICATORS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

I, JAMES A. Gownns, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State oiflllinois, have invented certain Improvements in J onrnal-Lubricators, of which the following is a specification.

Nature and Object of the Invention.

This invention has for its object the construction of a journal-lnbricator, which, in its use, will economize the oil, and in the case of railway-journals'will dispense with the waste that now is in use.

Figure 1 is a cross-sectional View, and

Figure 2 is a longitudinal view. Y

I take a piece of sheet-iron and form a plate, A. This plate is made with four arms, K K, extending up, two on each side of the journal.

On each side of this plate the part B, between these arms, is turned down in a nearly direct line.

At each end of the plate strips, 0 O, sufficiently widefor the purpose designed for them, is also turned down.

the plate A, and is attacbed to the plate by the upper end of thehvire' passing through thestrips GLi-oi the plate from one to the other. f

E.-"E"1sa [neTotloose fibrous material, made of lamp-wicking or similar material, extending from the bottom of the coiled-wire spring up' over the plate A. Each end of this wicking is fastened to the bottom of the coiled spring at F F. v

H is a matting, made of felt or similar material, placed upon the plate A and connected with the wicking E. This matting H extends over the plate and down beside the pieces B B. At I I this matting H and wicking E are fastened to the pieces B B sufiicicntly strong tohold the matting and wick in position on the plate A, and without any fastening exposed to the action of the journal on the surface of the plate.

Should it be desired, the coiled-wire spring can be surrounded with a cloth shield, as shown in the draw- 1ng.

D D is a coiled-wire spring, upon which is placed The operation and use of my invention are as follows:

. Thewastc is removed 'from the journal-box on a railway-car, and oil is poured into the box. The Inbricator is then placed in the box under the journal,

with the journal between the arms of the plate extending up on both sides.

The matting H, by the action of the spring D, is pressed against the journal from the under side, and the lower ends of the wicking E are always in the oil iii the bottom of the journal-box, as the ends are attached to the bottom of the spring D, which constantly supply the matting on the plate A with oil, and thus at every revolution of the journal it is freshly Oll0(l'.

It will be observed that, by the method of fastening the matting to the plate herein described, none of the fastening is exposed to the action of the journal.

Claims. j 1, The curved plate A, having the bent-down parts B B, when employed in a journal-luln-icator in comspring D with the wicking E E, when the latter is at taehed to the bottom of the curved spring, substantially as shown and described.

JAMES A. OOWLES.

Witnesses:

' J. H. KEAZIE,

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